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Daily Brief · Tuesday, August 25, 2026 · No. 81
A typical Monday for 311 — 8,385 requests filed across LA
Angelenos filed 8,385 MyLA311 service requests yesterday, down 5% against a typical Monday (median of the last 8 Mondays: 8,782). We compare like weekdays with like — a raw week-over-week number would mostly measure the weekend dip, not the news.
The city's loudest asks: Information-Only (2,404), Item Pickups (1,967), Illegal Dumping Item Pickup (1,672).
Busiest ZIP: Downtown LA (South Park) (90015) with 260 requests. Around Westwood (90024/90025), neighbors filed 134 requests.
The ground moved 50 times in Southern California over the last day; the largest was a M2.7 17 km SSE of Shandon, CA.
In the permit ledger (which the city publishes ~2 weeks in arrears), a recent standout: a $1,966,896,355 airport building permit in Westchester (90045). Total declared construction value in our 30-day window: $4,320,633,495.
By the numbers
311 yesterday: 8,385 · typical Monday: 8,782 · Westwood: 134 · quakes 24h: 50 (max M2.7) · permit value 30d: $4,320,633,495Correction, September 18, 2026: the permit figure this edition labels “30-day window” / “permit value 30d” is the declared value of every permit on our record when it was written (issued since May 7, 2026) — not a 30-day total. The label was accurate in early June and drifted as the record grew. Editions from September 19 print a true 30-day figure with its dates. Archived text is left as published.